RMF: The Latest and Greatest

Project and Program: MVS, MVS Performance

Tags: Proceedings, 2014, SHARE in Pittsburgh 2014

RMF is IBM's strategic product for z/OS performance management. It is the base product to collect performance data of z/OS systems and it provides reporting capabilities for sysplex-wide monitoring, performance analysis and capacity planning. In this session the latest functions provided with z/OS V2R1 RMF will be reviewed. With the new release, RMF comes along with quite a number of substantial highlights:
  • zEnterprise Data Compression Express (zEDC) and Shared Memory Communication Reporting
• Support of Storage Class Memory statistics
• Exploitation of System z Integrated Information Processors
• Cross Platform Monitoring support for Windows systems
• SMF Recording Facility for AIX, Linux and Windows performance data
• Additional Postprocessor reports in XML output format
-Peter Muench-IBM Corporation

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